What are your political views? Are you Libertarian, Conservative, Liberal, (those are the 3 most common) or do you consider yourself independent? I've found that hanging around different political forums and reading the detailed debates has taught me the most about politics.

Don't think that your vote doesn't count. There are millions of Americans each year that don't vote because "their lousy little vote doesn't count" but it does. If you could combine all of the non voters into one group it would be enough votes to swing almost any election.

Enjoy the Political Formus.

I'd suggest maybe hitting up a local community college US Government class... good overview of the system.

Planned to type more, but apparently it's past my bedtime. Good luck on your job search, and as was said previously, don't get wrapped up in labels and groups... Vote the issues.

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I'm a Conservative Republican so I would like to think that's true . Do you have any further details or a link to the study? It would be an interesting read.

We may be on the right path to figuring out Howie .

There are a ton of Libby academics who are just plain brilliant, and I don't think intellect has any bearing on political leanings.

Yeah, I said it.

HOWEVER, I do think the differences are more complex and fundamentally ingrained than simlpe intellect... Much like the differences in communication and thinking styles that we see between genders, such is the case with pure conservatives and pure liberals. The thinking is different. The communication is different. The perceptions are different, and they process information differently.

It's all Mars / Venus up in here, y0.

I haven't spoken with him in like a year at least, but I will try to get ahold of him sometime so I can ask him about it. I'm not just making it up.

Thank you AZhitman for your advice, and thank you to anyone else for your bits of advice. I'm glad I asked. There may even be other people on this forum who could benefit from these Q and A's.

I don't want to inundate this thread with the drawn out differences between political parties, (that would just spoil it), but this is definitely a topic I want to read about and/or contribute to if there are any threads here that already deal with these differences.


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Seang

You can find some good information here.
http://www.dailykos.com/

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Greg is a nice guy but he is just a little warped to the right so beware

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We may be on the right path to figuring out Howie .

No your not!

You'll never figure me out

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YOU LIE.

DailyKos? Oh, hell. At least give him a legitimate source, Howie!

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

It's the link that is held by a sticky at thetop of the politics forum here.

http://www.foxnews.com/hannity

all other info is garbage.

Modified by dusred at 9:05 PM 10/15/2009

BTW, dusred, when I clicked on your link it didn't work if your intention was to direct him to fox.

Is there such a thing?

FTFY

I know you hate Fox and everything but it IS the top rated news organization. Wonder why?

Research is done in many ways. Sending someone to a partisan website that will not take a critical look at its own side and admit that they do make mistakes and they are not right 100% of the time is not research. Finding websites that take critical views of both sides is the key, as well as checking the party websites gainst voting records to see if they truly are what they say they are. Fox, MSNBC, etc. are not good sites to do true research at. They are only self serving enterprises for the purpose of making a profit at the expense of accuracy. Neither really does the news or impartial research.

Fox news is number 1 for the same reasons the crazies are always the loudest in the room.

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That coming from you I'm not concerned.

Pointing out facts is certainly a way to fail on a Political forum .

How can the #1 rated news source be right-slanted if this country is supposedly moving left?

I mean, the MAJORITY elected a Dem.

Can't have it both ways, guys. Argument is nullified (or at least much more complex than you make it out to be).

Self proclaimed #1

Fox claiming they are the #1 news source is like Howard Stern claiming to be the king of all media.

Both are self proclaimed are are just for audience amusement.

President Obama did an interview with O'Reilly but the White House doesn't think too highly of Fox noise.
Too many right wing wacko's catering to the birthers, gun huggers, tea party wingnuts, acorn haters and others that want to bring sub machine guns to political rallies.

Telcoman

I am somewhat leary of "left", because an extreme left, I feel, would deprive me of autonomy, which is very important to me. I don't feel the need to belong to a leftish movement, and any pseudo-need to belong to a movement like that would at least eventually be outweighed by my love for autonomy.

As I pointed out, Fox loves to clalim they are the ONLY right leaning news organization out there against a liberal media. If you subscribe to that theory, then they are not splitting the right wing viewership with any other outlets, unlike the lef leaning outlets that must split viewership with other outlets.

Add up all of the other outlets, including network tv which Fox claims is as liberally biased as any sources out there, and Fox comes nowhere close to commading a majority of the viewers.

Toyota might be #1 in world car sales but it comes nowhere near to selling a majority of the cars worldwide. Same thing with Fox in the cable tv entertainment (or news, if you care to call it that) business. The majority is still elsewhere.

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I also enjoy the Wall Street Journal, and I pirate The Economist's audio copy to listen to on the way to and from work.

The audio Economist is brilliant.

i agree with everything said here.

might i add, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and Spectator Magazine.